Quantifying the proportion of severe asthma exacerbations attributable to inhaled corticosteroid nonadherence

Asthma is an inflammatory condition often punctuated by episodic symptomatic worsening, and accordingly, patients with asthma might have waxing and waning adherence to controller therapy. We sought to measure changes in inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) adherence over time and to estimate the effect of t...

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Published in:	Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2011-12, Vol.128 (6), p.1185-1191.e2
Main Authors:	Williams, L. Keoki, Peterson, Edward L., Wells, Karen, Ahmedani, Brian K., Kumar, Rajesh, Burchard, Esteban G., Chowdhry, Vimal K., Favro, David, Lanfear, David E., Pladevall, Manel
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Language:	English
Subjects:	Administration, Inhalation adrenal cortex hormones Adrenal Cortex Hormones - administration & dosage Adult Allergy and Immunology Anti-Asthmatic Agents - administration & dosage Assessment of Medication Adherence Asthma Asthma - drug therapy asthma exacerbations Biological and medical sciences Computerized physician order entry drug therapy Emergency Service, Hospital - statistics & numerical data Ethnicity Female Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Fundamental immunology Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act 1996-US Health maintenance organizations HMOs Hospitalization Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data Hospitals Humans Immunopathology inhaled corticosteroids Male Medical sciences Medication adherence patient compliance patients Pharmacy phenotype Sarcoidosis. Granulomatous diseases of unproved etiology. Connective tissue diseases. Elastic tissue diseases. Vasculitis
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